Reasons I Love My Mother

Reason #358:

During me and my sister’s bi-monthly trips down to southern California to see our biological father, my mom would do everything in her power to make the flights comfortable since she couldn’t be on them with us.

Do you know those little plane games they sell at the airport? The ones where you have to peel stickers and then put them on their correct number and then once they’re all in their proper place, they make out a picture? She bought us a lot of those for us. And a lot of every other type of game. Sometimes when I’m at the airport and see them, I think of her. My sister Janelle just saw one of them the other day and bought it for me because she knew it would remind me of mom.

My mom also tried to hook us up with flight attendants who would be nice to us and make us feel at home on the plane. We flew about 200 times a year, so my mom really wanted us to not feel scared or lonely. We ended up getting to know the flight attendants pretty well, and on some flights, they would let us pass out the peanuts for them. We even made tips a lot of the time.

I like that Janelle and I have little things like those plane games to remind us of how thoughtful our mom was. I forget about some of those things and then when I’m reminded of them, I think, “Oh awesome! Another thing I have of her!”.